I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by stavros on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:05AM (#46189638)

Yes, you convert them into bread and milk the same way you convert little pieces of paper into bread and milk: You find someone who's willing to give you bread and milk in return for them.

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by ranguna on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:12AM (#46190101)

Good luck finding someone who will accept btc for literal bread and milk

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by stavros on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:14AM (#46190115)

I'm pretty sure I could find someone who'd accept 1 BTC for bread and milk. After that, we're just haggling over price.

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by spaceman_2020 on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:53AM (#46190414)

There are massive P2P economies already built in most third world nations that work on crypto. They prefer stablecoins but will happily accept BTC as well. It's a serious enough problem that they've started using code words to refer to crypto currencies ("goat" for USDT, "chicken" for ETH, etc.)

If a corrupt third world government is scared of a piece of tech, it is, imo, good tech

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by solumunus on Monday December 08, 2025 @05:28AM (#46190680)

People are already using crypto in this way so you can stop fighting the hypothetical.

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by kayamon on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:40PM (#46195235)

bitrefill.com

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